"Dunic's characters are all different sorts, at all different stages of life, dealing with tragedies, indignities, and other wild cards that cause them to lose their footing. [...] all the pieces are beautifully etched thanks to Dunic's flair for the power-packed chiseled sentence. As the widow from whose perspective the story "Youth" is told thinks about the teenagers she has taken to observing, 'There was something pure about them, like elements...hot and bright or dark and cold, sparking off each other, reac­tive and explosive.' These stories give literary realism a good name."—Kirkus Reviews

Fifteen stories replete with an intimate, nuanced, and quietly profound realism by the Trillium Book Award–winning author of The Clarion

With crisp and penetrating prose, the stories in Suddenly Light are bracing, buoyant, and test the delicate threads that tie us together.